Quite the contrary, in fact, for this stranger was a figure from the past. Yet Paul felt able already to build up a picture in his mind because the name announced on the telephone had not been unfamiliar. Their contact to date had been limited to a single, quite short, telephone conversation. Not that he knew Richard, the man he was about to meet, the man who had placed the gay ad to which he had replied. And in all probability that was equally true of Richard.
Paul knew that he possessed none of the characteristics of the gay male stereotype.
